A film screening and conversation
with Professor Colin MacCabe

Colin
MacCabe is Distinguished Professor of English and Film at the University
of Pittsburgh and also Visiting Professor in English and Film at UCL. He
has written extensively about literature and cinema, and produced a number of
films with Derek Jarman, Terence Davies, Isaac Julien and many others.

Films:

Ways of Listening (Colin MacCabe,
2013)

Spring (Christopher Roth, 2014).

The films are part of a film series on the life
and work of the British writer and thinker John Berger.

Reception to follow.

All welcome.

Centre Highlights

MA Comparative Literature Student Susannah Sevenson won theBCLA Arthur Terry essay
prize 2016 for her essay titled "(Artificial) silk girls: Silk as a social
signifier in the changing consumer societies of Émile Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames and
Irmgard Keun’s Das kunstseidene Mädchen". The second prize was awarded to Hajer Gam for her essay "Death, Life and Love as forms of
consumption in Emile Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames and Thérèse Raquin".